In shuttered Boracay, crime rate sinks by 89% — PNP

The crime rate in Boracay has dipped by an astounding 89 percent, thanks to better police interventions and the fact that fewer people roam the shut-down holiday island.
Amid the government s efforts to rehabilitate the world-famous beach destination, which President Duterte has likened to a cesspool, the Western Visayas Command of the Philippine National Police reported a substantial decline in index crimes.
Chief Supt. Cesar Hawthorne Binag, head of the regional police, said the crime environment in B